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Florida: Stand Up for Puppies, Consumers and Your Community

Florida: Stand Up for Puppies, Consumers and Your Community

Most puppies sold in pet stores come from puppy mills, large-scale, cruel breeding facilities that prioritize profit over the health and wellbeing of animals. Dogs in these operations are often kept in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions without adequate veterinary care, food, water or socialization. That’s why over 250 localities across the nation—including over 60 in Florida—have enacted local laws to keep cruelly-bred puppies out of their pet stores and instead promote the adoption of dogs and cats from rescues, humane societies and shelters.

But the puppy mill lobby is dead-set on invalidating these humane ordinances by any means necessary—including hijacking other bills moving through the state legislature and trying to amend their harmful language onto them.

If the full Florida Legislature passes this preemption language, it will invalidate existing local bans, prevent other communities in the state from passing similar laws, and roll back the progress we’ve made toward minimizing puppy mill cruelty in Florida.

What You Can Do

We must act quickly: Your state’s 2018 legislative session ends onFriday, March 9.Please take these two actions today: